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counsel. It would be unjust to the pris oner as well as to his counsel, to hold them together when they are out of harmony with each other. But there is a time to withdraw and a time to remain. To withdraw without
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retained to defend a young Swiss valet named Courvoisier, charged with the murder of his master, Lord William Russell. The defence was a denial of the charge, and there was an insinuation that one of the female
the consent of the prisoner on the very eve of the trial, would be to abandon him to fate. It would be such an atrocious act of desertion as no court would permit. A reference to a celebrated case, which was tried in London in 1840, shows the opinion of a very dis tinguished English judge on this subject. Charles Phillips, a prominent barrister, was
servants of Lord Russell had committed the murder. On the second day of the trial Courvoisier sent for his counsel and said to them : " I have sent for you gentlemen to tell you I committed the murder." Mr. Phillips, in a correspondence written in 1849, an<^ published in the London Times, wrote of this confession : " When I could speak, which was
